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I bought a BSR equalizer 25 or so years ago (DOH!) I thought it was cool because of the pink noise generator and all the bar meter lights. It introduced a LOT of noise so I finally just attached it via the line out so I could watch the purty lights. I'm sure the lights made it sound better [^o)]

Here's mine... built 5 years ago with my Dad and brothers. Sometimes there is nothing wrong mixing high tech with old tech. The advanced epoxy preserves and strengthens this cedar strip to an extent not really possible before and yet gives you full warmth and view of the beautiful wood beneath... and this 17 footer only weighs in a little over 70 lbs! Certainly stronger than any cheap aluminum or plastic canoe but the local rocky creeks will certainly make you cringe at the thought of those 6 layers of spar varnish scraping bottom. You folks keep proving to me that I am in the right place! While I love the wooden boats analogy I don't think I'll try to mix tubes and water anytime soon! Some creative mind here could probably find a way if they wanted, I'm sure.

I think this picture shows that there is simply not enough space between the RCA jacks on the amp to connect both cables. I guess I could listen to one channel at a time but that might ruin the fun! (wasn't thinking... don't mean to hijack!)

and 10... Must be able to fit my Scott amp! Those darn RCA connects are too close! I just found that these new Dayton cables won't fit my Scott 299B. I even cut the rubber grip off (substituted some electrical tape) and they are still too big! Anything good you folks know will fit a Scott ??

There is a disturbing image for ya! ...myself in a cold Wisconsin cemetary on a dark night with a hammer and chisel!

Just a heads up... they do not come with the power supply required to trigger the switch. They assume you either already have a 12volt trigger source or you have to buy a power supply. It calls for a 12vdc 100 milliamp power supply. I bought Jhoak's and it works great for switching between the HT and 2 channel amp! I just used one of many power supplies I have lying around. I kept it at 12 volts but it is ok to go over the amperage a little. Mine is around 800 milliamps.

I love the 299b with my Cornwalls!! The closest comparison I have to your Yamaha is my CX-630 feeding a MX-630 (135 watts per chan). My Yamaha is much more in your face while the Scott is much more laid back. At 25 watts, the Scott 299b does great with all music I have thrown at it and still gets plenty loud but I don't feel the need as much. If I want the house to scream at the neighbors I go back to the Yamaha... but I've spent the VAST majority of my time with the 299. If I remember correctly, I was warned away from the early revision of the 299a (heat issues?) but that the later revision of the 299a was very close to the 299b. Craig can tell you anything you need to know. ENJOY!

A really lame painter I hired (quickly fired) managed to splatter white paint on my black grill cloth. The cloth is in perfect condition otherwise. I'm hoping for some advice before I test a dab of alcohol or paint thinner on the cloth. I'm not sure if it might be some Kilz primer or white latex that he splattered as he was using both. My guess would be latex. This happened years ago and the speakers were out of view so I hadn't noticed until a while back. I'm hoping to not need to replace the grill cloth. Any thoughts on how to clean this ?

I use an APC SmartUPS 1500. It corrects for high and low voltage and is supposed to put out a pure sine wave. Anyone ever put a scope on one of these? I don't know that it has improved or hurt the sound but it certainly sounds better when the power goes out! [] I like the protection too as I have seen the effects of lightning as well as brown outs.

Mark, I have 2 pair of Cornwalls a few years older than yours. One set has relatively new (from the factory) 15s in them and the others appear to be original. I don't notice a difference... I haven't had them side by side to compare so there are many other variables affecting the sound. I guess what I am saying is that neither the 5+ year old or 40+ year old versions have disappointed me!

I noticed a small improvement and felt it was worth while. I like Pandora for playing in the background and finding music I might not run across otherwise. At 192 Kbit, it isn't bad but not great either. I'm not sure what their bitrate is for the free version. I upgraded to the yearly Pandora One subscription when our Christmas music listening ran over the 40 hour per month limit (free version). That was the second month I ran over. For 3 bucks a month it was worth it for no commercials, unlimited play time, and the desktop app is a nice fit for me.

A 2 year old screaming in your ear from less than a foot away is WAY more painful than any volume level I ever took the Cornwalls... and certainly less musical! I admit that I had a lot of dial left before getting too nervous. ...and I don't have that amp that goes to "11" []

The office Cornwalls are nice but that HP 4550 really puts out lousy sound! []

Ditto on Wuzzzer's comments about not putting them in the ceiling. That is what I did 9+ years ago when we added on a new family room with 10' ceilings. Nothing sounds right coming from the ceiling and I regret spending that much money. I DO understand not really having any other choice... just understand that you are buying convenience and maybe a little resale value later. If you hate them... pull them out and sell them. Buy new grills to cover the holes. You might also consider running a second wire set to a wall jack so you or someone could go that route later (just change your connections from the ceiling over to the wall jack run). That might be overkill but it is exactly what I wish I would have done.

OK… NOW I get what you folks have been talking about! Hearing tubes and listening to the Scott 299b for the first time was not disappointing. This is certainly a great match with the Cornwalls! Even though my source is somewhat weak (my best on this setup is the Audigy 2 zs output from my computer) at this point, I was still able to have a great time selecting some good sounding tunes. So far, all have been FLAC files… started with Julie London (wow), Coltrane, Pink Floyd (Dark side of the Moon is indeed incredible with tubes)… from there it is a blur of Jimmy Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Beatles, Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin… Forgetting all about any stress or worries, the tinnitus in my ear, I felt like a teenager again! And to think, what do I have in store as I gradually upgrade to better sources in the future?! Better turntable, CD player, new DAC… what’s next? I found this forum just 4 months ago and within a few weeks I owned 2 pair of Cornwalls… I guess I caught the fever quickly! The bank says I better slow down but my wife just informed me the CD changer is dying in the living room. Hey! Thanks for the advice on this forum! Even if it was directed to someone else a couple of years ago I appreciate being able to benefit from your comments and experience.

I've been using Pandora a lot lately just to hear stuff I don't have. Maybe I just hadn't noticed but I'll often see a "buy" link which can take you right to Amazon. It certainly helps me make a more informed decision about what I want to buy. I don't know what bit rate Pandora uses but it is at least a little better than the 160 kb I was stuck at years ago. Now that I have equipment that will let me hear the difference it is unlikely that I will be listening to those much except for on my alarm clock. You can save audio streams to .wav but I don't know if that is worth the trouble and I'll bet there was something in the agreement with Pandora that would prohibit that.

Am I to understand that you don't want me to send mine to you? ... I already tried to give it away once and it was returned to me. Try a lozenge, Bob! I understand that it was for charity so it wasn't $ wasted. Now, I like Dylan's older songs a lot... up to Blood on the Tracks, but not the music so much, if that makes any sense. It's teach yourself the guitar and sing along kind of music to me. I don't need a good sound system to listen to Bob... it is more about experiencing the memories (mostly good).

It figures... my wife left 20 minutes before I got home tonight and that is when Fedex showed up. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to get that 299B [:'(] This is an already broken in NOSvalve job so assuming it arrives safely after 2 days rattling around town on the back of a truck it should be good to go (I'll reseat the tubes first). I had thought of Dark Side of the Moon... it was my first CD when I bought my first CD player 25 or so years ago. Next came Boston and Led Zepplin IV. I still have all my vinyl but I'll probably choose a CD because my TT setup is a little weak. It is a Denon DP-23F with a Stanton L720 cart. I was thinking about replacing the Stanton with a Shure m97xe... do you think that would get me by or is that a waste? The Denon is working perfectly well... I used it only to play most of my records only once or twice to record it to tape (remember those?) on my Nakamichi. Then along came CDs and I stored the vinyl away for a couple of decades. Time to get it out! A lot of great choices mentioned! I'm all over the place... Little Feat, Bob Dylan, Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Beatles, Hendrix, Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man (but I don't have a very good recording of that). That Bach selection would be great, too. I guess I have another day to think it over.

How 'bout a vote on what song or album I should play on my Scott 299B (NOSvalve) that I will be receiving shortly. This will be my first introduction to tubes and it will be debuting with my '68 Cornwalls. hmmmm... what to choose, what to choose?

Wow! I paid more than that in tolls and gas just getting to mine! Take care of those beauties! There have been some good threads here on how to take care of the finish.

Of course if you are in a burning house long enough to be breathing those fumes you've got bigger problems than the fumes! A relative of mine was a fireman and his stories scared the hell out of me... it is amazing how little time you can have to get out!

CAT5E is fine but I'd go with CAT6... I use plenum everywhere so I don't accidently use PVC where I shouldn't. It is a safety issue as you just don't want more toxic gases in the event of a fire than you will already have from other sources. Here are some dull but enlightening video clips showing the flammability of the different cable types. http://www.l-com.com/multimedia/video_clips/video.aspx?ID=13100 Of course, going wireless really cuts down on the fire hazard! [] I use as little wire as I can now because of how much damage I have had with lightning strikes. (computer equipment mostly... never stereo or video) I have been zapped via network runs on an outside wall. I will be keeping my runs in interior walls whenever I can for now on!

Hey Mallette! I'd love to hear a high res 24/88.2 recording of that version of "Rhapsody in Blue"! ((ion (24/88.2)

Just curious… perhaps this has already been discussed but I have found conflicting information on serial numbers for Heritage and the year of manufacture. If you are counting the years backwards it appears the discrepancy begins where one reference uses the letter I (reference 2 below) and the other skips the letter I. Probably not a big deal to be off by a year one way or the other but I’m wondering if anyone has more light to shed on this. It would be neat to know if my Cornwalls were built the year my wife was born. Lot of information here... finish codes, driver history etc... Reference 1:http://www.klipsch.com/media/products/downloads/heritage-reference-data.pdf Excerpt from page 6.. YEAR OF MANUFACTURE (1955 THROUGH 1983 ONLY) A = 1955-63* F = 1968 L = 1973 S = 1978 B = 1963-64* G = 1969 M = 1974 T = 1979 C = 1965 H = 1970 N = 1975 U = 1980 D = 1966 J = 1971 P = 1976 W = 1981 E = 1967 K = 1972 R = 1977 X = 1982 Y = 1983 * Cornwall's & La Scala's used "A" 1963 and "B" for 1964; thefirst Cornwall to use a letter code was 3A09, shipped in Augustof 1963. Reference 2: http://home.earthlink.net/~ivol/klipsch_cornwall/klipsch_date_codes.htm KLIPSCH S/N FORMATS DATES DISCRIPTION EXAMPLE 1946-1947 ### 001 (ending #021) 1948-1961† #### 0121 (starting #0121) 1962-1983 ##letter#### 20Y1234 1984-1989(?) YY WW #### 89281234 1990-1997(?) DOY Y2Y1 #### 135791234 1998-2000 YY WW #### 00281234 1962-1983 Letter format A = 1962 F = 1967 K = 1972 R = 1977 X = 1982 B = 1963 G = 1968 L = 1973 S = 1978 Y = 1983 C = 1964 H = 1969 M = 1974 T = 1979 D = 1965 I = 1970 N = 1975 U = 1980 E = 1966 J = 1971 P = 1976 W = 1981 NOTES 1946-1961 dates can only be found in log book (eng. Library) DOY= day of the year YY=year (i.e. 99,00…) Y2Y1=2nd digit of year, 1st digit of year WW=week of the year Date code on drivers (1994) Example - 9429 = 1994, 29th week of the year / YYWW † Klipschorns of this vintage had the s/n hammer stamped into the tailboard, woofer access door or inside the woofer chamber.

I'm really glad that at age 14 I thought to record her on my jam box. Arthritis was already taking a toll on her hands but like you said... at least I have them. At her funeral, I passed out a CD of her music to each person as they left. I found out later that quite a few of them went out and bought a CD player just so they could play it... your welcome, Best Buy. I enjoyed her stories of playing for the silent movies and still love to hear her versions of Basin Street Blues, Bye Bye Blues, Dark town Strutters Ball, Lazy river, Missisipi Mud, Satin Doll... WOW! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!